February 2010
“reality is for those who cannot sustain the dream.”
– slavoj žižek (baobab)
nina simone, my man’s gone now (boyhood)
the xx, night time (xx, 2009) (***)
..I would compare her to a black sun, if only one could conceive of such a star pouring forth light and happiness. But it is the moon, rather, to which she is more readily likened; it is the moon that has marked her indelibly with its redoubtable influence; not the stark white moon of romantic idylls, that icy bride, but the sinister, inebriating moon suspended in the depths of a stormy night and...
You’re so near to Russia So far from Japan Quite a long way from Cairo Lots of miles from Vietnam (Monty Python’s Finland song via unpalombaro)
max richter, shadow journal (the blue notebooks,...
john blow, the graces’ dance, gavatt, sarabrand...
herbert howells, salvator mundi (requiem, 1935)...
The xx, Insects (b-side to VCR); dusty vinyl...
Watchedt: Per una cabina di seconda classe con 4 sconosciuti ve la cavate con circa 180 euro. Sola andata ovviamente.
Posso dire una cosa?
De André mi fa venire (per usare un eufemismo) il latte alle ginocchia. (edt)
“let heaven look after what has been purified, the wind and the rain will take...”
– from the end of victory: an island tale joseph conrad, 1915
wolfgang amadeus mozart, mass in C minor, great...
io sono nero di amore, ne’ fanciullo ne’ usignolo, tutto intero come un fiore, desidero senza desiderio
-pier paolo pasolini (e)
scott walker, cue / hand me ups (the drift, 2006)...
Le finestre sapranno l’odore della pietra e dell’aria mattutina. S’aprirà una porta. il tumulto delle strade sarà il tumulto del cuore nella luce smarrita.
Sarai tu - ferma e chiara.
— Cesare Pavese (e)
elephants have been known to die of broken hearts if a mate dies. they refuse to eat and will lay down, shedding tears until they starve to death. they refuse all human help. (s)
C’è stato un tempo in cui non vivevo con Edmund o con suo fratello. C’è stato un tempo in cui avevo un marito e, prima ancora, un tempo in cui non avevo né Edmund né un marito, un tempo in cui ero me stessa. - Heather McGowan, Duchessa del nulla
